Early Modern English Foodways

A Critical Sourcebook

Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook is the first anthology devoted to food-related writing in Renaissance England. Bringing together seventy passages from a two-hundred-year sweep of British history, the volume demonstrates how food connects all forms of life, in the most intimate and public ways.

Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook is the first anthology of food-related writing in Renaissance England. Bringing together seventy passages from a two-hundred-year sweep of British history, the volume demonstrates how food connects all forms of life in the most intimate and public ways.

The sourcebook offers new insights into the early modern experience of sustenance. It introduces readers to the tribulations of the women who started a 1629 grain riot, reveals the primacy of eating in Thomas More’s Utopia, and explains the significance of posset pot